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Mozilla Links Newsletter - 2 - September 16, 2003

Starting today, we are opening a design contest for Mozilla Links.
You have a chance to let your creativity be known and shape the look
of this newsletter. Take your your best shot at either the Mozilla
Links logo or the Mozilla Links newsletter look. You have until
October 15th, 2003 to send us your work. Winners will be announced in
the following issue to be released on October 28th.

Starting today, we are opening a design contest for Mozilla Links.
You have a chance to let your creativity be known and shape the look
of this newsletter. Take your your best shot at either the Mozilla
Links logo or the Mozilla Links newsletter look. You have until
October 15th, 2003 to send us your work. Winners will be announced in
the following issue to be released on October 28th.

The two winners, one in each category, will receive permanent credit
on the Mozilla Links website and a Mozilla CD autographed by the
hackers we have all come to love and love to push.

As always, we appreciate you comments and support. Once again I would
like to apologize to those people who had problems receiving the first
issue. Hopefully, this issue should get to you with no stops.

This smart extension allows you to customize almost everything you may
think about tabs. You can get all new windows to open as tabs; drag and
reorder tabs; reload tab contents automatically with the frequency you
prefer (this is very useful for web based e-mail clients or news/sports
lovers); lock tabs so any link will open in a new tab (or window);
highlight a tab by changing its tab text background color; set
permissions on each tab for JavaScript, frames, plugins and images;
save this permission with bookmarks; and much, much more. All of this
with a few clicks in an enhanced and customizable tab context menu.

Mozilla Links Tip: Bookmark a Set of Web Pages
(contributed by Percy Cabello)

Do you have a group of favorite websites you load every morning as
your try to wake up completely? If that's the case -or if you have
any reason to save a group of pages under one bookmark—, Mozilla
comes to the rescue again.

You can save all of your open tabs to a single bookmark. With the
Mozilla Suite, click the Bookmarks Menu, select "Bookmark this
Group of Tabs" and assign a name and place for your bookmark. To open
the set, just select the bookmark in the Bookmarks menu or Personal
toolbar.

In Mozilla Firebird (preview technology), select the Bookmarks menu
and click on "Add to Bookmarks" (or just press Ctrl + D). In the "Add
bookmark" dialog window, check "Bookmark all tabs in a folder," change
the name if necessary, and save it in a convenient location. To open
it, just select the appropriate folder in the Bookmarks menu and click
"Open in tabs".

You can get Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird behave in some particular way
during startup using command line parameters.

To avoid loading the splashscreen, open a console window, change to
the folder where Mozilla is installed, and run:

mozilla -nosplash

To start with a specific profile, run:

mozilla -Profile

In Windows, you can also edit a Mozilla shortcut to include any of
these parameters in the command string. You can create a different
shortcut for every user profile!

Many of the parameters available also work for Mozilla Firebird and
Netscape. Just locate the appropriate "mozillafirebird" or "netscp"
instead of "mozilla" and append the appropriate parameters and values.

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2 Released
--------------------------------
The second milestone of Mozilla Thunderbird, mozilla.org's standalone
mail and newsgroups client, has been released. Based on Mozilla 1.5
Beta, Thunderbird 0.2 features a redesigned Options dialogue, spell
checker improvements, enhancements to the default theme and better
performance and stability.

Epiphany 1.0 came out on Tuesday 9th September. Epiphany is a GNOME Web
browser based on the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine with a focus on
usability and simpicity. It is included as the default browser in GNOME
2.4.

Mozilla 1.4.1 release candidate builds are now available for Windows,
Mac OS X and Linux. Mozilla 1.4.1 is an updated version of Mozilla 1.4
with around 100 additional bugfixes. If you find any problems in these
test builds, file a bug and set the blocking1.4.1 flag to ?. The final
version of Mozilla 1.4.1 will be released soon, assuming no critcial
problems are found.

On Wednesday, September 10th , a branch was cut for the forthcoming
Mozilla 1.5 milestone and the trunk opened for 1.6 checkins. To ensure
stability, checkins to the branch require approval from
[E-mail:drivers@mozilla.org].